Interview Conversation

Interviewer: What’s the difference between defect status Fixed & Ready for Test? What about New, Open and Assigned? Deferred defect and a Change request? Fixed: The defect has been fixed by the developer in their dev-environment. But not yet deployed to QA environment. Ready for Test: The fix has been deployed to QA environment >> and is ready for QA team to retest. New: QA team has just logged the defect into bug-tracking system. It is still new and has not been reviewed or assigned to anyone. Open: The defect has been reviewed as valid (often by the defect manager). Assigned: The defect is assigned to a developer for analysis & fixing. Deferred: In simple terms ‘Postponed’. Why? There can be multiple reasons like low-severity, timelines crunch, out-of-scope, etc. The decision to postpone a fix has to be approved by BA/Product Owner. Change Request: The defect logged demands a change in existing requirements. A CR can be taken up for implementation in the current release or can be deferred to a future release.